NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.

IRISH

Lord Mayor of Dublin Brendan Carr and Sadhbh Breen launch the St. Anne's Rose Festival 2016. Chris Bellew / Fennell Photography Chris Bellew / Fennell Photography / Fennell Photography

• Ireland’s GDP grew by a massive 26% last year, but all is not as it seems. 
• The trial of an Arklow woman charged with murdering her colleague by driving him into a harbour continued at the Central Criminal Court.
• A referendum to give Irish people living abroad a vote in the presidential election is planned for 2017.
• The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by businessman Denis O’Brien over a High Court ruling relating to the Moriarty Tribunal. (RTÉ)
• Angela Merkel has not been able to reassure Enda Kenny that Ireland will get any special treatment when the UK leaves the EU.
• UTV Ireland and TV3 will soon be part of one big company. What will that mean for viewers?
• A 15-year-old boy faces detention for throwing black paint at another teenager on a crowded Luas.
• After being in the works for the best part of a decade, Galway’s controversial Picture Palace finally looks set for completion.
• New stats show there was an increase in the number of divorce applications last year.

WORLD

At least 22 people have died head on train crash in Italy. Gaetano Lo Porto / PA Images Gaetano Lo Porto / PA Images / PA Images

#ITALY: At least 22 people were killed in a head-on collision between two passenger trains in the southern Italian region of Puglia.

#FIGHTING ON: Jeremy Corby will face Angela Eagle for the leadership of the UK Labour Party after the party decided he should automatically go on the ballot paper.

#BETTER TOGETHER: Bernie Sanders formally endorsed Hillary Clinton saying that he will do all he can to ensure she becomes US president.

#INFANTICIDE: A woman on trial in one of Germany’s worst infanticide cases, involving eight dead babies, confessed to killing several of them but said she could not remember how many.

INNOVATION

• Pokémon Go is still taking the online world by storm and makers are now updating the iOS version. 
• If you need to share a password with someone online, you should know the safest ways to do it.

PARTING SHOT

If you’re into musical puns, show some R-E-S-P-E-C-T for Mick Barry TD.

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